About XTOUR
Editorial standards
XTOUR states a travel fact only when a verified record or an official source supports it. Where nothing does, the page says what is not known and where to check. These are the rules behind every guide, destination and place page.
What XTOUR publishes
XTOUR publishes destination guides, country hubs, practical topic pages, individual place pages, hidden gems and an interactive tourism map. Each page is about one clearly named place or question, and links to the places, destinations and guides it relates to.
Pages are written to help a traveller decide and plan: what a place is, where it is, what it costs where that is documented, how to get there, when to go, and what to check before arriving.
Where our facts come from
Facts come from verified records or from primary sources: national and regional tourism boards, site operators, transport operators, government portals, UNESCO and similar official bodies. Guides list the sources they cite at the end of the page, and many claims link directly to the source that supports them.
When a source is reported by someone else rather than published officially, the page says so. When sources disagree, the page says that too, rather than picking one silently.
What we leave out on purpose
A missing fact is better than a wrong one. XTOUR does not estimate prices, opening hours, travel times, road conditions, seasonal closures, accessibility, dress codes, entry rules or ratings. If no source supports a figure, the page explains where to confirm it instead of guessing.
Distances on XTOUR are straight-line unless a page names a source for a route. XTOUR does not route anyone and does not state a journey time it cannot verify.
XTOUR does not describe two places as belonging in the same outing unless that is supported, and it does not call anything the best, most popular or must-see without evidence.
Dates and freshness
Guides show when they were published and last updated, and where a fact was re-checked against its source, when it was last verified. Rules, fees and schedules change; treat a dated fact as true on that date and confirm it with the linked source before you travel.
Tours, bookings and independence
Editorial pages are written first, independently of anything sold on them. A tour or experience appears on a page only when it actually visits the place that page is about. A tour that departs from a city is not presented as something to do in that city.
Businesses can apply to be listed, and every listing is reviewed before it can appear.
Search engines and AI assistants
XTOUR is open to search engines and AI assistants so that travellers who ask them questions can be pointed to a sourced answer. Every page is plain, server-rendered text with structured data that describes the page accurately. A machine-readable index is published at /llms.txt.
If you quote XTOUR, please keep the page's dates and its distinction between what is documented and what is not, and link the page you quote.
Corrections
When a fact on XTOUR turns out to be wrong or out of date, the page is corrected and its updated date changes. A correction replaces the wrong statement rather than adding a hedge around it.